The Praise of Gardens: An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-artJ. M. Dent & Company, 1899 - 423 oldal |
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5. oldal
... look out PLATO for a place where we may sit down . Phædrus . Do you see that lofty plane - tree ? Socr . How should I not . Pha . There , there is both shade and a gentle breeze , and grass to sit down upon , or , if we prefer it , to ...
... look out PLATO for a place where we may sit down . Phædrus . Do you see that lofty plane - tree ? Socr . How should I not . Pha . There , there is both shade and a gentle breeze , and grass to sit down upon , or , if we prefer it , to ...
24. oldal
... look at the sweet children on my knee . And now I take my pleasure in my garden . I lean on my staff as I wander about , or sit down to rest . I raise my head and contemplate the lovely scene . Clouds rise , unwilling from the bottom of ...
... look at the sweet children on my knee . And now I take my pleasure in my garden . I lean on my staff as I wander about , or sit down to rest . I raise my head and contemplate the lovely scene . Clouds rise , unwilling from the bottom of ...
38. oldal
... looks into the Garden . Let's go those three Walks now above the other , that I told you look'd into the Kitchen - Garden . These upper Walks have a Prospect into both Gardens , but only through Windows with Shutters . At each Corner ...
... looks into the Garden . Let's go those three Walks now above the other , that I told you look'd into the Kitchen - Garden . These upper Walks have a Prospect into both Gardens , but only through Windows with Shutters . At each Corner ...
57. oldal
... look over the enclosure wall , and were formed of stone , or wood curiously wrought within and without , or of earth covered with fruit trees , ' as Lawson , ' the Isaac Walton of gardeners , ' tells us . The topiary art ( opus ...
... look over the enclosure wall , and were formed of stone , or wood curiously wrought within and without , or of earth covered with fruit trees , ' as Lawson , ' the Isaac Walton of gardeners , ' tells us . The topiary art ( opus ...
66. oldal
... look upon her fair Eyes , which smiled at the Babe's folly , meanwhile the breast running . Hard by was a house of Pleasure , built for a Summer retiring - place ; whither Kalander leading him , he found a square room full of delightful ...
... look upon her fair Eyes , which smiled at the Babe's folly , meanwhile the breast running . Hard by was a house of Pleasure , built for a Summer retiring - place ; whither Kalander leading him , he found a square room full of delightful ...
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230. oldal - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
3. oldal - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron ; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense ; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices : A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
67. oldal - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which, buildings and palaces are but gross...
305. oldal - Of a steep wilderness whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild. Access denied; and overhead up - grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
340. oldal - ... college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose as study ; and to examine and refine those grosser propositions, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.
306. oldal - Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose : Another side, umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant...
199. oldal - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
69. oldal - ... or desert, in the going forth, and the main garden in the midst, besides alleys on both sides ; and, I like well, that four acres of ground be assigned to the green, six to the heath, four and four to either side, and twelve to the main garden.
305. oldal - Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
100. oldal - I NEVER had any other desire so strong and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and large garden, with very moderate conveniencies joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life only to the culture of them, and study of nature...